Manuscript: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Muzeum Východních Čech, Knihovna, MS Hr-6 (II A 6) (olim BI)

Manuscript type: chant book with polyphony

RISM siglum: CZ-HKm II.A.6

DIAMM Source Key: 1270

Image repositories: Manuscriptorium

Folio(s): All folios

Date: 1505

1505, with some later additions from the first half of the 16th century.

Location of origin: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Provenance

1505, with some later additions from the first half of the 16th century. From the collection of a confraternity of literati at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Hradec Králové. Inscription on f. 1': "Anno ab incarnatione Christi ultra mille et quingentos quinto, sexta Idus Novembris die quinta … industrius vir Dominus Joannes cognomine Franus arte pannifex, civis in urbe Grecreginae degens sua et opera et inpensa hoc memoratissimum propeque horrendum voluminis opus in templum Spiritus sancti quinquaginta quinqué Pragensium grossorum sexagenis comparavit …"

Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Muzeum Východních Čech, Knihovna, MS Hr-6 (II A 6) (olim BI), All folios

Physical description

Material: parchment

Number of leaves: 367

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 660 x 430

Quire structure: Text version

Non-musical texts: Inscription on f. 1': "Anno ab incarnatione Christi ultra mille et quingentos quinto, sexta Idus Novembris die quinta … industrius vir Dominus Joannes cognomine Franus arte pannifex, civis in urbe Grecreginae degens sua et opera et inpensa hoc memoratissimum propeque horrendum voluminis opus in templum Spiritus sancti quinquaginta quinqué Pragensium grossorum sexagenis comparavit …"

Other devices: 1. Modern foliation, pencil top right, 1-367
2. Original foliation, red ink top centre, A[I]-[A]XV to Y[I]-[Y]VI (from f. 48 onwards)

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	always, in outer margins for the top of each stave, slightly above top line. At bottom and top for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid	always, double line c. 6 mm apart in red ink to left and right; text on double line in lead point or hard point
Ruling pattern	highly regular very regular for music-only pages,
Staves omitted from grid	occasionally
Incomplete staves	sometimes, Stave ends in middle of line where music ends on pages where music and verbal text combined; rest of the line filled by verbal text

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
red ink	always		for vertical bounding lines
hard point or lead point	always		for text lines
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
red	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always		pentagrams for all polyphonic sections except for ff. 122-124 which use the tetragrams on which the chant is always notated
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
single	normally		for intial of top voice of pieces
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	sometimes
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
provided, in dedicated space	sometimes

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Czech, Latin
Order of Copying	variable always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
fully texted with one text	all voice parts	often
fully texted with two or more texts	all voice parts	sometimes

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Colour of notation note	red, blue and gold notation only in chant sections
Type(s) of notation	full mensural
Type of notation note	Central European notation
Monophonic notation	present in chant sections, sometimes as tenor for polyphonic pieces
Level of calligraphy	very high

Text

Types of script	textura
Level of calligraphy	very high
Colour(s) of text	black red blue gold in polyphonic sections sung text always black, rubrics in red. Gold and blue ink used only in chant sections.
Multiple texts	yes
Text repetitions	few
Abbreviations	few
Non underlaid vocal text	additional
Liminary text	voice designations, always; same script as sung text

Decoration

Level of Decoration	high

Decoration miniature frequency		Folios		Size position	Description	Discrepancies
sometimes					only in chant section
Decoration border frequency	Border type	Folios	Size	Position	Description	Discrepancies
sometimes	None		None		only in chant section
Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
painted initials	always		calligraphic with decoration, flourished	larger one-line initials introducing the top voice of every piece; subsequent voices with smaller initials below the stave.	Alternating red and blue letters filled with floral and plant motives in red, blue and sometimes other colours. Surrounded by sometimes elaborate penflourishing of the opposite colour.	In chant sections often much more elaborate

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